{"id":98895,"date":"2018-02-19T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=98895"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:24:53","slug":"private-home-school-grants-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/02\/19\/private-home-school-grants-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Private, home-school grants announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund (NOSF) is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 school year for need-based scholarships for grades K-8 worth up to $1,500 for children to use at a nonpublic school or $500 for homeschool expenses.\u00a0 Families need to reside in Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood or Wyandot Counties.<\/p>\n<p>NOSF is a partner with the Children\u2019s Scholarship Fund and awards need-based scholarships to provide parents with a choice for their child\u2019s education.\u00a0 The Children\u2019s Scholarship Fund was founded in 1998 by the late Ted Forstmann and the late John Walton who saw a need for educational alternatives for families.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1999, the Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund has awarded a total of $12.6 million in scholarships to 14,700 students, part of that includes $4.3 million in matching funds.\u00a0 All funds raised locally by NOSF are matched by the Children\u2019s Scholarship Fund and are used for scholarships in NW Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund is the only privately funded need-based scholarship program in northwest Ohio that awards scholarships to children who otherwise might not be able to afford private schools for kindergarten through eighth grade. Eligible families are required to demonstrate their financial need as measured by standards similar to the Federal School Lunch program.<\/p>\n<p>Interested families can learn more about the program at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosf.org\/\">www.nosf.org<\/a>\u00a0or apply online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/NOSF18AP\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/NOSF18AP<\/a>.\u00a0For more information, contact Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund at 419.720.7048.\u00a0Deadline to apply for the 2018-2019 school year is Friday, April 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund (NOSF) is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 school year for need-based scholarships for grades K-8 worth up to $1,500 for children to use at a nonpublic school or $500 for homeschool expenses.\u00a0 Families need to reside in Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}